Table 1.

Clinical and pathological features of cases and controls

	Normal Controls	RVCL	Ischemic Stroke
n	6	5*	4
Age at death (years)	60.3 ± 5.2 (range 52–66)	56.0 ± 4.2 (range 50–60)	53.3 ± 2.5 (range 52–57)
Female gender	3 (50%)	2 (40%)	2 (50%)
Brain weight(g)	1251 ± 107	1128 ± 181†	1277 ± 93
Post-mortem interval (h)	37.2 ± 32.6	6.1 ± 2.5†	20.5 ± 13.8

RVCL, Retinal Vasculopathy with Cerebral Encephalopathy.

^*Tissue from all brain sections unavailable for one subject.

^†Data available on four of the five RVCL cases.